Darwin College

Darwin Correspondence Project

Darwin and ReligionPaul White interviews Tim Lewens about the role of Darwin in modern science and the implications of evolution for religious belief.

Fitzwilliam Museum

Darwin and the Ancient EarthIn a podcast to complement the 2009 exhibition Endless Forms, Jim Secord explains why the young Darwin's fascination with geology was so important for his later work.

Generation to Reproduction

Henry VIII: The Quest for an HeirIn the first of two lectures on royal births in Tudor and Stuart England, Peter Jones (King's College, Cambridge) looks at Henry VIII's anxieties about fertility, and the resources – medical, religious, political – on which he drew to secure a male heir.

Mary of Modena: A Royal ScandalMary Fissell (Johns Hopkins University) examines the sensational tales told about the so-called 'warming-pan baby', the child born to James II and Mary of Modena in 1688.